Hurricane Ike destroyed more than 4,000 tons of stored food and 135,000 tons of citric fruit when it hit Cuba, the local press reported on Monday.
Cuban Interior Minister Marino Murillo told the local press that the losses were caused when the roofs of many storage houses were battered by the hurricane.
Hurricane Ike also ruined about 135,000 tons of citric fruit, Cuban Agriculture Minister Maria del Carmen Perez said on Monday.
Perez said the crop of citric fruit was the hardest hit by the hurricane, suffering more losses than the crops of bananas and tobacco.
Earlier, Hurricane Gustav ruined the harvest of citric fruit on Juventud island, one of Cuba's main plantation areas.
The harvest of citric fruit in the Caribbean's largest island has already dropped 50 percent in the past decade.
Hurricanes Gustav and Ike together have caused about 5 billion U.S. dollars in damage, the government said Monday night.
Source:Xinhua
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